We review THE WALK (IMAX 3D) – A balancing act of visual spectacle and character
Wire-walking madman savant Phillipe Petit’s stomach-flipping 400 meters-high tightrope trek between New York’s fabled Twin Towers in 1974 has already received the celebrated cinematic treatment in Man On Wire, James Marsh’ 2008 Oscar-winning documentary about Petit’s near superhuman “coup”. But now it’s the turn of Robert Zemeckis’ boisterous and spritely The Walk, a digitally magicked up retelling of that historic …